Kubernetes suffers from security flaw
Yesterday, a critical security flaw impacting Kubernetes 1.10 and higher was discovered. The flaw, CVE-2018-1002105, was publicly disclosed by the Kubernetes community and reported through the Kubernetes vulnerability reporting process. According to Red Hat, the flaw could allow malicious actors or unapproved users to escalate privileges on Kubernetes installations, including the company’s own container solution … continue reading
Ansible unveils its roadmap for Ansible Engine, Ansible Tower, and Ansible Galaxy
The IT automation company Ansible dedicated today to automation with its Ansible Automates conference in NYC. Tim Appnel, senior product manager for Ansible Automation at Red Hat, took to the stage to lay out a roadmap for Ansible products. He said that there will be an increased focus on security automation. The new updates will … continue reading
Kubernetes 1.13 focuses on simplifying cluster management
The latest release of the container orchestration solution Kubernetes is now available. Kubernetes 1.13 is the fourth and final release of this year. The release focuses on simplified cluster management and makes CoreDNS the default DNS. “Kubernetes 1.13 has been one of the shortest releases to date at 10 weeks. This release continues to focus … continue reading
Report: A majority of companies cannot fill the cloud-native skills gap
As companies transition to a cloud-native model, many are struggling to find talent for technical roles. According to OpsRamp’s recent Cloud Skills Survey, this skills gap crisis is inhibiting innovation, impacting productivity, and affecting revenue growth. Of those that responded to the survey, 94 percent stated that they struggled to find candidates with the right … continue reading
Envoy graduates from CNCF
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced Envoy is the third project to graduate from its foundation. Envoy is an open-source edge and service proxy for cloud-native apps. The only other two projects to currently have graduated from CNCF are Kubernetes and Prometheus. According to CNCF, graduation makes a maturity level for projects that … continue reading
AWS App Mesh for microservice traffic control and monitoring enters public preview
Amazon Web Services launched the public preview release of AWS App Mesh today. According to AWS, the app news utilizes a new architectural pattern to more efficiently monitor and control traffic between microservices. The goal of the release is to provide a better way to pinpoint the source of issues like “high latencies, error rates, … continue reading
VMware Cloud for AWS Outposts and VMware Cloud Foundation for Amazon EC2 coming in 2019
Cloud computing and platform virtualization company VMware announced upcoming updates to VMware Cloud and VMware Cloud Foundation this week during the AWS re:Invent conference that will introduce the ability to use more of VMware’s data center features on Amazon Web Services Outposts and Amazon EC2 cloud computing instances. AWS Outposts is a new service from … continue reading
HPE Discover Madrid 2018: HPE Datacenter Care Services, HPE Compostable Cloud, and HPE Edgeline
At HPE Discover Madrid 2018 this week, HPE made several new announcements for new solutions relating to cloud and the edge. Highlights include: HPE Datacenter Care Services expanded to meet modern needs HPE introduced new operational capabilities to HPE Datacenter Care. The new features are designed to “transform and optimize customers’ IT environments from the … continue reading
Red Hat expands hybrid and multi-cloud efforts with NooBaa acquisition
Enterprise open-source software company Red Hat wants to get a handle on unstructured data stored across multiple cloud infrastructures with its acquisition of NooBaa, developers of an early-stage multi- and hybrid-cloud data management solution. “NooBaa’s technology enables application developers to define policies for their data and its life cycle by providing an abstraction layer on … continue reading
AWS re:Invent 2018: AWS launches Global Accelerator service and new EC2 instances
Amazon Web Services, Inc. announced a new way to streamline traffic to applications hosted on its global network with the AWS Global Accelerator service during the company’s annual re:Invent conference this week. With Global Accelerator, traffic between users and hosted applications is optimized to find the shortest route to the AWS edge location that’s the … continue reading
LeanIX launches store in enterprise architecture tool category
LeanIX, the leading global provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions in Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM), today announced the launch of the LeanIX Store, enabling a network of report sharing that improves collaboration and supports continuous product innovation. From the start, the user-friendly Store platform gives the LeanIX community easy access to a wide range of custom reports … continue reading
Digital colleagues will transform global AIOps by 2021
Within 24 months, cutting-edge enterprises will utilize cognitive-based digital colleagues as the standard form of communication and collaboration within IT operations. These artificial intelligence (AI)-based platforms will not only serve as the initial point-of-contact for all employee IT requests and issues, but also change the way IT organizations internally operate and communicate. Digital colleagues will … continue reading
Amazon EC2 instances get predictive scaling capabilities
Amazon implemented a new predictive scaling feature for Auto Scaled EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud) instances yesterday which uses machine learning to make predictions about traffic and automatically scale cloud computing instances accordingly. “Using data collected from your actual EC2 usage and further informed by billions of data points drawn from our own observations, we … continue reading
Datadog Synthetics provides proactive error detection
Datadog is introducing new capabilities to provide proactive error detection. Today, it launched Datadog Synthetics, which monitors application and API availability by simulating user traffic. Normally, when issues are detected by synthetic monitoring systems, engineers need to use multiple tools to troubleshoot the issue, which results in prolonged outages. According to Datadog, Synthetics is built … continue reading
